then i had a professor who was a former c.i.a. officer and it changed my life.t is when i decided and i got accepted into the cia when i was 22. my job was to stop terrorists from blowing up our homeland, prevent russian spies from stealing our secrets, and put nuclear weapons proliferators out of a job. one experience i had when i was in my first tour i was in another country and before you meet someone who has secrets, you have to make sure you don't have surveillance. i was in a toyota, a small car, i turned down an alley which i thought was going to be devoid of people. it was like a parade. a couple thousand people. there were people hawking their wares, there were pack animals, i was driving four miles an hour down -- an alley. this woman dragged her foot across the concrete, bleeding everywhere, she looks at the car and realizes i am not from around there, and starts screaming bloody murder. i have hundreds of people thinking on the car -- thinking on the car shaking the car. when you are in the situation, get off the x. the x is the location of the last

director jim comey and former c.i.a. director john brennan were not among those three who were indicted, isn't that correct? >> that's correct. >> to the extreme disappointment on some on this panel your investigation failed to produce indictments against hillary clinton, correct? >> that's correct. >> didn't indict barack obama? >> that's correct. >> or joe biden? >> that's correct. >> couldn't indict hunter biden? >> we didn't investigate mr. hunter biden. >> of your three prosecutions one ended up a guilty plea to -- unrelated to the origins of f.b.i. investigation and that individual received a probateed sentence with no jail time, correct? >> parts of that are correct. >> the other two men you prosecuted went to trial on the charges, they were accused of lying to the f.b.i. and both were slam dunk acquitted. isn't that correct? >> they were acquitted. >> none of the individuals you prosecuted were ever charged with being part of a hoax or a fraud or a witch hunt or a politically motivated deep state conspiracy again

and i would contrast them to i would contrast them to the c.i.a. and other agent sis. whether you're looking at finds of the durham report or the recently declassified fisa opinions which found deficiencies in the handling, or going back to the director of the f.b.i. in october, before a national election, announcing publicly an investigation of one of the two candidates, there are all kinds of things where we need to, i think, redouble our efforts. it's not quite depoliticizing, it's at least making sure the f.b.i. acts in such a manner that people can't point to their activities and say, that's political. mr. turner: the issue here is not just poll itization -- polityization, these were presidential political campaigns. that's why it has to have a higher degree of standard and concern, because it can affect political and electoral outcomes. that's why this was so important today. thank you all very much. >>ednesday, the justice department's former ecial counsel, john durham, testifies on his invesgation of the f.b.i.'s probe of alleged links between the 2015 trump pr

and c.i.a. directors and others received things about intelligence suggesting there was a clinton campaign plan underway to stir up a scandal tying trump to russia. the accuracy of the intelligence was uncertain at the time but the f.b.i. failed to analyze or even assess the implications of the intelligence in any meaningful way. when the f.b.i. learned that the primary source of information for the steele dossier, which was basically the guts of the narrative about their being a well-coordinated conspiracy involving trump and the russians. when they learned that danchenko was the primary sub source for those reports, it was a time when the f.b.i. already knew that danchenko had been the suspect of an f.b.i. espionage investigation suspected of being a russian asset. and nonetheless they signed him up as a paid informant without further investigation of that espionage concern, to say nothing of resolving that espionage matter before using danchenko and his information. when the f.b.i. and specia

here's what the c.i.a., the f.b.i., the n.s.a., and office of the director of national expwens found in 2017. russian president putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. the mueller investigation and moscow project documented more than 250 episodes of collaboration and meetings between russia and the trump campaign, including paul manafort's repeated passing of campaign secrets such as polling data to consequence tan known, the -- constantine the russian agent. led by donald trump jr., jared keusher in, and a russian lawyer. senator marco rubio, the florida republican, stated that the u.s. senate bipartisan select committee on intelligence, quote, found irrefutable evidence of russian meddling in the american campaign. so the mueller report if you read it makes no pronouncement on collusion. the punitive crux of the distinguished gentlelady's complaint because as mueller writes, collusion is not a legal event or legal concept. so the whole question of trump's collusion with russia is in the realm of opinion. most americans would see a lot of

so go check out c.i.a. we also have a twitter account as well and you can look at many different artifacts there as well. in the early part of the 1950s, the cia had a real problem. it extremely hard to get into the soviet union to get information out. and so the cia decided, well, if you can't go in, what if you go over and was this period of time incredible creativity to try and figure out the secure ity issue? it first started off with the bomber. the idea that the soviet union had many more nuclear bombers than the us did, and that really worried over here. so president eisenhower came to cia and said, we to know. and so what is cia do in 18 months? they go from the drawing board to operational status of the u-2 airplane. it flies at 70,000 feet and it flies so high that neither missiles nor airplanes from the soviet union get to it and on its very first pass over the soviet union collects information on their military airbases and dispels the bomber gap. in fact, we had many, many more bombers than the

what about the c.i.a.? they were soliciting signatures to go on the memo to cover for the biden laptop after the so-called reforms took place. >> we know they didn't fix everything because look how hard the head of the house oversight committee had to fight to get a single form recently. >> exactly. >> that f.b.i. form, 1023 which reportedly shows the 17 recordings of joe biden and so on and so forth and the mystery bribery dealings, allegations only, but why do they have to fight so hard if everything was fixed at the f.b.i. >> and block everything out of the two forms he went to view yesterday. >> adam schiff has told fox news, he was talking getting censured this afternoon, he says he's going to wear that as a badge of honor. watch this. >> i take it as a badge of honor because this says that i'm effective. they go after people they think are effective and expose the corruption of the former president and led the first impeachment trial of the former president to the first bipartisan vote in u.s. history

we're told c.i.a. director bird made a secret trip to beijing last month to try to lower tensions. it seems judging by china's recent actions bird's visit may failed to achieve that goal. >> john: increasingly provocative. thank you. republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida member of the energy and commerce committee is with us now. is this china telling the u.s. to get out of our neighborhood? >> happy monday. yes, this is china's attempt to normalize this type of behavior. when you turn to twitter this morning you see the poll it bureau pushing out propaganda saying the united states is a dying empire and how they were letting us know we were in their neighborhood. freedom of navigation operations which is what we were doing in the strait have been used for years. china is trying to normalize this behavior. we continue to make sure that freedom of navigation operations continue in the region because one, there is economic implications but also this type of behavior is for china to be continuing to put that out there so that they can say well we've been do this. we've been

. >> a former c.i.a.er with stints in afghanistan, india and pakistan -- hurd focused on defense and national security. but he notably broke with republicans on key issues -- he voted to protect lgbtq americans from discrimination, and in favor of bipartisan police reform -- >> keeping bad cops off the force could prevent another killing like george floyd. >> on guns, he was one of 8 house republicans who supported universal background checks in 2019. >> the bill has passed. [laughter] >> that was before 19 kids and 2 teachers were killed in uvalde, texas last year. hurd represented that community in congress and on the anniversary of that shooting, he told newshour he wants more limits on who can buy some guns. >> we know, if you move -- if you turn the age to have a high-caliber rifle to go from 18 to 21, which is -- it's -- you have to be 21 to get a handcuff desk handgun -- handgun, that alone would have changed you baldly and would have changed the lives of 21 families. >> with cross-party votes, cam

former c.i.a.nt, analyst and the 12th candidate vying for the gop nomination. >> for decades in this country people have beaten a path to california. yet they never lost population until their current governor took office. now they are hemorrhaging wealth and population. >> bill: ron desantis firing back at newsom. he said florida can't come close to his own state's fast-growing economy. deputy chief of staff karl rove talked with us today. good morning to you in austin, texas. here is also an ad that desantis is running about san francisco. keep in mind newsom, before he was governor was mayor of san francisco. watch here. >> just shows you these policies matter. leadership matters. they are doing it wrong here. no wonder why we've had so many people move from san francisco to florida over the last few years. >> bill: that's a sample of it. he is on the streets of san francisco making that ad and that statement. what did you think? is it effective and where does it go between these two men? >> it

he found then c.i.a.ector john brennan realized the significance of the intelligence that hillary clinton was trying to drum up during the campaign of 2016. to tie donald trump to russia. he expeditiously briefed barack obama, briefed joe biden and then nothing happened after that. what do you think about that? >> it shows they are all in on it. we start with the special counsel mueller report. that report indicated that the russia/trump collusion story was false. the durham report goes farther. he looks into the actual wrongdoing that was occurring in the f.b.i. at the time. he traces it back and identifies the steele dossier, russia collusion document itself, came from the clinton campaign and there was, as you were describing the clinton plan communicated to try to propagate this and tie the president to it. durham says the whole investigation that happened at the f.b.i., including the mueller investigation itself, should not have happened. there was no evidence to go over the bar enough to cause an in

will hurd, a notable trump critic, worked in the c.i.a.years before joining congress in 2015. power panel now, jason rileer, "wall street journal" column haft. scott bolden democratic party chairman. jason, i come to you first as the field widens. 12 major candidates. some below that hashtag line for percentages on down. your thoughts of where we are now. >> well, for republicans who want an alternative to donald trump, this large field is something they aren't happy to see. they are seeing this turn into what we saw in 2016 where a large field of republicans refusing to get out and donald trump winning. at the same time, however, it is still very early and these candidates have a right to go out there and introduce themselves and see if there is an appetite for their message. will hurd is a very attractive candidate and talented politician and eager to see what he brings to this campaign. >> harris: i have to wonder among democrats, scott, what you are thinking because this field now is more diverse than ever. a woman, people of color in

you spent 25 years at the c.i.a. what do we know about this important question of what will trigger a war versus what will deter a war? david: i think the first thing we know is that the equation is in his head. right. it is his interest and his moment when he decides what needs to happen. so, we need to hold that as true. we are, however, seeing a number of things that are different than they were a minute ago. and suggest that this peace that is held is exceedingly fragile and can't happen, feels like -- here's what i would say. number one, his statement. and not only his statement that reunification, it is a national interest but not something he can pass down to somebody else. and there are people who make the argument is it because he's in a much tougher economic position so we need something legacy? or whether he just believes it from a naturalistic perspective. that is certainly from his words much more aggressive statement. number two, is coercive actions toward taiwan. i looked at the world for a long time,

at the time, went directly to barack obama and joe biden, c.i.a., i'm sorry, and informed them of what was happening there. he noted the lack of curiosity. john durham will be in the headlines for the next day and a half. the f.b.i. just now preempted his appearance came out with a statement. the conduct in 2016 and 2017 that special counsel durham examined why leadership has taken corrective action. had they been in place in 2016 the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. one more line. this report reinforces the importance of -- the f.b.i. now is getting ahead of what will be a very public story that john durham is about to tell the american people and congress. >> which is really important because think about this, bill and dana, we have not seen much coverage at all of the original durham report. we covered it all throughout and covered it when it came out in full. but really didn't get oxygen anyplace else. and now with durham testifying on the hill being questioned about the specifics inside, there are a lot of people that may be learning this for the first

so you re a former member of congress and also a former c.i.a.ional security experience is what sets you apart in the race. i want to start with some policy before we get to the horse rate politics. you accuse -- will: i appreciate that. thank you for talking policy before politics. geoff: but you accused the biden white house of wringing their hands and doing nothing, as that russian military group mounted that short-lived rebellion over vladimir putin over the weekend. why in your mind was intervention the right approach? will: i was not saying intervention, i was saying doubling down on our partners and friends. when your adversary is in a period uncertainty, that is an opportunity and we should have been doubling down for our support to the ukrainians, we should be making sure our nato allies were doing the same. i think the biden white house is consumed with this concept of escalation. they believe the anything they do to help the ukrainians is going to prompt the russians going, kazi -- going kamikaze. this is one of the reasons the biden a

colluding in these crimes andp even more disgusting when you realize both sides of the aisle know the c.i.athe f.b.i. are aiding them and keeping mute. getting rich from blood money. all are lying. and say they can't talk about this. it's a national security risk. when it's really their own necks on the line. finally to that woman in connecticut, i don't take advice from those in connecticut here's the reason why. you got paid by eric holder to hold a fema exercise and you faked the deaths of children to start a gun takeover. have a good day. host: left's go to astoria, new york, sinclair is calling on the democratic line. caller: thank you so much for taking my call. i just want to say something about the politics of the united states of america. realize that we are in a war right now. not all republicans are racist. but all the races are republicans. all of them? that's what i'm talking about. that's what we have to fight against. there is a war and a side which you have to be on. republicans, stand up. none of them stood up to impeach donald trump. you saw his ugly side and what he's don

here's what the c.i.a., the f.b.i., the n.s.a., and office of the director of national expwens found in 2017. russian president putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. the mueller investigation and moscow project documented more than 250 episodes of collaboration and meetings between russia and the trump campaign, including paul manafort's repeated passing of campaign secrets such as polling data to consequence tan known, the -- constantine the russian agent. led by donald trump jr., jared keusher in, and a russian lawyer. senator marco rubio, the florida republican, stated that the u.s. senate bipartisan select committee on intelligence, quote, found irrefutable evidence of russian meddling in the american campaign. so the mueller report if you read it makes no pronouncement on collusion. the punitive crux of the distinguished gentlelady's complaint because as mueller writes, collusion is not a legal event or legal concept. so the whole question of trump's collusion with russia is in the realm of opinion. most americans would see a lot of